Sentence examples for impose suffering from inspiring English sources

The stern taskmasters of the IMF are coming to Britain, to demand that the government live it up and spend more; the government, defiantly, will insist on continuing to impose suffering.

We need some justification for having the government impose suffering on others, presumably.

These measures should be significant enough to bear real consequences for the Cuban government, while being careful not to impose suffering on the Cuban population as a whole, Human Rights Watch said.

As Mitchell Berman writes (2013: 87), "the dominant retributivist view" is "that what wrongdoers deserve is 'to suffer'" (see also Zaibert 2013: 43 n.19; but see Kleinig 1973: 67, discussing the value of imposing suffering).

But German politicians seem determined to prove their strength by imposing suffering — and politicians around the world are following their lead.

It is, instead, the victory of an orthodoxy that has little to do with rational analysis, whose main tenet is that imposing suffering on other people is how you show leadership in tough times.

Richard is a character who deals with being born "deformed, half-finished, sent before my time into this breathing world scarce half made up" by vengefully imposing suffering on others.

On the contrary, morality is often a motivating force: "People are impelled to violence when they feel that to regulate certain social relationships, imposing suffering or death is necessary, natural, legitimate, desirable, condoned, admired, and ethically gratifying".

Given the normal moral presumptions against imposing suffering on others, it may be necessary to show that without suffering censure cannot be fully or properly communicated.

But we'd never consider imposing suffering and death in this context.

"I just don't think the gamble for the entertainment value is worth the chance that we're imposing suffering," he told VICE.